San Francisco-based telepharmacy developer PipelineRX received another investment from the California Healthcare Foundation that will help the company expand its services to more rural hospitals through a partnership with the California Hospital Association (CHA).

PipelineRX is looking to serve the rural healthcare market niche, and is pointing out to research that shows rural hospitals have higher rates of medication errors, often because of a shortage of staff pharmacists. In order to tackle this problem, the company is outsourcing pharmacists by way of telemedicine, allowing them to remotely fill prescriptions at rural hospitals.

California has 34 critical access hospitals that currently don’t have access to 24-7 pharmacist care or review for administration of medications in the hospital setting, the company said.

Rural hospitals have higher rates of medication errors, often because of a shortage of staff pharmacists.“Many critical access Hospitals struggle with limited staff availability and therefore limited hours of on-site pharmacy coverage,” Peggy Broussard Wheeler, vice president of Rural Health Care and Governance at the California Hospital Association, said in a statement. “Telepharmacy companies like PipelineRX may be a solution to fill the gap and have a positive impact on medication safety in these communities.”

PipelineRX is also likely to build out an analytics platform that would look to capture potentially useful data such as geographical prescription patterns, different interventions that are taking place, safety measures and proper dosage amounts, among other areas.

Last year, the company has raised $5 million from AMN Healthcare Services.